Re: [Cdk-devel] array based or list based implementations for core classes?

[Egon W. <ewi...@un...>]

On Thursday 10 August 2006 04:35, Rajarshi Guha wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 13:30 +0200, Kai Hartmann wrote:
> > As Christoph pointed out during the refactoring discussion
> > meeting, it is always an option to have to have two implementations of
> > the data classes (arrays and ArrayLists).
>
> That would be one way out - but it would seem that that would make the
> API larger but not necessarily simpler.

No, it would not make the API really larger. Both implementations would just 
use the same cdk.interfaces.

> > At the end of the day, at the moment I would vote for the replacement by
> > ArrayList - waiting for further discussion. And please also consider the
> > switch to java 1.5 to make the Iterators typesafe.
>
> I agree - especially on the typesafety issue. I have been bitten by this
> from time to time :-/

Ok, do a survey on the user list, who needs Java 1.4 for the CDK 1 release.

Egon

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